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  • Rogers, Telus, Bell Named Global Leaders in 5G—But Not in Speed

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  • Of course it is reliable, nobody with any sense should be paying the insane prices they are charging for it. All the discount carriers are still on LTE.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • Agreed, that they are just an android tablet makes them far more useful than most ereaders as you can install apps from the Play store. I probably use mine in the kitchen more than as a reader.

  • Have restaurants like Taco Bell gotten crazy expensive for what you get or am I crazy?

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  • Yup, also while prices may have gone up across the board the spread of prices seems to have reduced. At this point eating out is a bad value but I feel like spending $30 on a good meal gives me better value than a nearly $20 fast food meal.

  • Montrealer plans to sue major grocers over false ‘made in Canada’ labels

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  • I'm pretty sure the connector on a sodastream bottle is not proprietary. It's very similar, if not the same, as the ones on the paintball canisters I used to fill (at least the threaded one).

  • The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think

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  • Maybe if I used my selfie camera more often than never.

  • Looking for Compact Camera recommendation

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  • Honestly, if you want "quick unprofessional photos" stick with a smartphone.

    Standalone cameras don't have nearly the processing or automated modes of modern phones. So while bigger sensors and better glass can get you a better image it comes along with needing to know how to use the camera and processing the photos afterwards.

    That said if you still want something at a decent price I'd be looking at a used Fuji x100 or Sony rx100.

  • I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser

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  • What other chromium browsers have you tried on Linux?

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  • If your use case benefited from Quicksync then Intel was a clear choice.

  • would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable?

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  • I've been to China a number of times and it is a very interesting place with many amazing people. A government doesn't necessarily represent the people that live there.

    That said, it is up to you and your moral system whether to visit a country with a government you disagree with.

  • Is there no good inexpensive CAD software?

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  • The problem is that Parametric CAD kernels are complicated and expensive. There are some recent open source efforts but they are slow going. Just look at how bad Freecad is after all these years to see how difficult they are.

    I'm quite experienced with SolidWorks and have used both Creo and NX as well. I can't stand the likes of Freecad or Fusion because of that. Luckily I have access to the professional ones for my day to day modelling.

    One option to look at is Solid Edge, they have a maker version that is free and it's a proper professional package many companies use.

  • Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C

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  • Prusa also needs to fix their x-y build volume even if it breaks upgradeability. The standard has changed and it is hard to go smaller once you are used to the larger size.

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    Canada needs to catch up with U.S. on job protection, minister says, in response to Chinese ferry deal

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  • This is all political grandstanding, and I'm tired of hearing about it. No Canadian shipyard even bid. The choice was either no ferries at all (on a system that already doesn't have capacity or reliability many weekends), or they get built outside of Canada.

  • Horrible kerning

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  • That kerning issue is so distinctive that I knew where the document was from from the preview snapshot which didn't show the ISTA header. It is actually funny how horrible their Pdfs on their website are and how nobody cares to fix it.

  • Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

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  • The real issue here is that the systems that car manufacturers use for their vehicles are insecure and outdated. The Flipper Zero is just exposing their bad design decisions.

  • Why is EVERYTHING made in china?

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  • Other's here have covered the why's of how China became a manufacturing powerhouse, but it is also interesting about how they continue to build things even though China is no longer the cheapest place to make things and hasn't been for awhile.

    One of the most amazing things about manufacturing in China is how extensive their supply chain infrastructure is. This allowes your suppliers to react quickly and do things in days or hours that would take weeks elsewhere in the world. I've got suppliers in China that I know will get it right the first time, and will build a brand new product in 6-8 weeks rather than 12 weeks anywhere else in the world. The way the supply chain worldwide revolves around China is both amazing and scary. There are many items today that are nearly impossible to get outside of China at any price.

    The other thing is people. Due to the years of experience China is the place where the best tooling and manufacturing engineers are. There are so many people concentrated in the manufacturing centers that if you need to hire 1000 people in a couple days to assemble widgets then you could feasibly do that.

    That said, there is definitely a push to diversify manufacturing outside of China and I wouldn't be surprised if they lose some of these advantages in the coming years. This started with the original US tariffs against China, continued due to how China locked down during the pandemic, as well as the current round of US tariffs.

  • Canada in 'facility crisis' as aging public pools face wave of major repairs or closures

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  • This is the result of kicking the can down the road continually rather than spending tax money on maintaining and building the infrastructure needed by the populace. Everything ends up in a failure state but at least you paid $50 less in tax each year!

  • Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal

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  • This is an argument for having your own domain for emails. There is an annual cost but at least your address isn't locked to a specific provider sokcd you can change some DNS settings to point at a different mail server.

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • XD, I totally did this to make a smart alarm clock a couple years ago. That said it is completely stable, don't think it has ever crashed or locked up on me, unlike the echo show it replaced that did so frequently (not to mention it occasionally updating in the middle of the night and waking me up at full brightness)

  • Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

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  • Lights are one of the areas where I think automation is genuinely useful, but my rule with anything "Smart" is that it has to be able to run 100% locally.